different between butterscotch vs oliver

English

Etymology

Butter + scotch, with the second element deriving not from scotch whiskey or Scotland, but from Middle English scocchen (“to score, nick, cut”), in reference to how the candy is boiled and hardened and then usually scored to make breaking it apart easier. The word is usually said to have originally been a trademark of Parkinson's, who is claimed to have invented it.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?t??sk?t?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?t??sk?t?/
• Hyphenation: but?ter?scotch

Noun

butterscotch (usually uncountable, plural butterscotches)

1. A hard candy made from butter, brown sugar, syrup and vanilla.
2. A sauce or syrup made of similar ingredients.
3. A light brown colour, like that of butterscotch candy.

Translations

Adjective

butterscotch (not comparable)

1. Of a light brown colour, like that of butterscotch candy.
2. Having the flavour of butterscotch.

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Colors

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??l?v?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??l?v?/
• Hyphenation: ol?i?ver

Noun

oliver (plural olivers)

1. (archaic, rare) A small tilt hammer, worked by the foot.

Anagrams

• violer, virole

Catalan

Etymology

oliva +? -er

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /o.li?ve/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /u.li?be/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /o.li?ve?/

Noun

oliver m (plural olivers)

1. olive tree

   Synonym: olivera

Further reading

• “oliver” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “oliver” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “oliver” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “oliver” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Swedish

Noun

oliver

1. indefinite plural of oliv